By MIRIAM ACZEL Our climate is changing, and more rapidly and drastically that we thought. While geological evidence shows that Earth’s climate has constantly been changing over geological time, our current period of warming is occurring much more quickly and drastically than past events. Recent satellite data shows that there has been an increase of...
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Climate vs. Weather: Asking and Answering Sticky Questions
By MIRIAM ACZEL As a PhD student studying climate change and impacts of fossil fuels on the climate, I’m interested in public engagement, and how best to explain the differences between the complex long-term changes on our climate, such as increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming temperatures, and the shorter term fluctuations. In...
Climate Change and World Peace: Recognizing Young Leaders
By MIRIAM ACZEL Normandie Pour la Paix Last month, I attended the Normandy World Peace Forum, Normandie Pour la Paix, as a Young Leader, where I had the honor of participating as the North American representative. The theme of this year’s World Peace Forum was honoring ‘The Peacemakers’, and highlighted those bravely fighting for peace today,...
Climate as a Security Issue: A UK Perspective
By SHIRIN HAKIM & MIRIAM ACZEL The relationship between climate change and security has become a point of critical debate between researchers and policymakers, as they grapple with differing and overlapping impacts of global interdependencies, socio-political changes, human mobility, and increasing urbanization and climate change. Climate change is causing increased frequency of extreme weather events, including increased flooding,...
Build Your Emotional Intelligence Skills for a Clean World!
By MIRIAM ACZEL On June 29, Leaders in Energy will be hosting the ‘Green EQ* Skills Workshop: Build Your EQ* Skills to Create Powerful Collaborations for Change.’ Emotional intelligence, or EQ*, is a renowned management and leadership training approach that empowers us to identify our unique strengths and capacities, and important capabilities of others. And the...
Rewriting the Equation for Fossil Fuel Emissions
By Kyle Saukas While some advocates are calling for the removal of fossil fuel powered generation, the global energy system is stubbornly rigid. With the clock ticking to reduce emissions as soon as possible, the focus must move to abating emissions on the road to net-zero emissions by mid-century. On May 29th, Leaders in Energy...
Amsterdam: Towards an Environmental Paradise?
By MIRIAM ACZEL The Dutch capital Amsterdam is widely known for being a bicyclist’s paradise. Biking safety levels are the highest in the world—in stark contrast to the United States, where the likelihood of being injured while biking is over 20 times greater than in Amsterdam. Over half of Amsterdam’s commuting population turns to biking as...
7 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint in 2019
By Tania Longeau Climate change is a terrifying reality. The science behind it is complex, and there are a lot of unknowns in terms of what it means for the future of our planet. One thing is for sure, though: Earth is in trouble. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, human activity creates...
Technology: A Key Driver to a Sustainable Future
By MIRIAM ACZEL Environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly mainstream in business operations and in investing. ‘Impact investing’ and other forms of environmentally and socially conscious investments play a crucial role. There is also an important and growing role for technology, both as a driver of environmental solutions, and as a catalyst for social change, in...
‘Zero is the Hero’: International Symposium Educates Students on the Concept of Zero in Math and Minimizes Environmental Impact
By DEBRA ACZEL and MIRIAM ACZEL Convened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Amir D. Aczel Foundation, in collaboration with the math department of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), held a successful international symposium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 19-20, 2019, on the role of the numeral zeroin mathematics. Six hundred first year math students,...